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We provide Adobe Captivate training in Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire and Somerset. Locations include Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Ringwood, Andover, Basingstoke, Dorchester, Farnborough, Ferndown, Portsmouth, Salisbury, Southampton, Taunton, Weston-super-mare, etc.
Number on course | Price per day |
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1 - 1 training | £345 + VAT |
2 - 4 people | £525 + VAT |
5 - 8 people | £745 + VAT |
Aims of the Introductory Adobe Captivate Training Course
This two-day course aims to take the delegate from the very basics of project development workflow and creating a project to finally publishing that project to make it available to their learning cohort.
Course Objectives
By the end of the Introductory Adobe Captivate training course, learners will be able to:
- Create projects
- Create slides
- Work with slide objects
- Add multimedia to projects
- Publish a project
How the course is run – This instructor-led course has a hands-on approach, with plenty of opportunity for delegates to practise the new skills they learn at the computer.
Pre-requisites – Familiarity with the Windows environment.
Provisional Course Outline
eLEARNING
- The pros and cons of e-Learning
- Research and planning
- Types of eLearning
- Examples of eLearning
WORKFLOWS
- Soft skill projects
- Software demo projects
INTRODUCING CAPTIVATE
- Overview
- Running Captivate in admin mode
- Filing and file types
- Tour of the interface
- Setting Captivate preferences
WORKING ON A PROJECT
- Creating a new project
- Setting project defaults and preferences
SLIDES
- Creating slides
- Working with slides
- Setting slide properties
- Creating slide groups
- Previewing slides
SLIDE CONTENT
- HTML5 compatibility overview
- Adding slide objects
- Working with the Timeline
- Setting slide object properties
SLIDE OBJECT TYPES
- Text Captions
- Images
- Characters
- Smart Shapes
- Highlight boxes
- Zoom areas
WORKING WITH SLIDE OBJECTS
- Arranging slide content
- Using styles
- Adding effects
NAVIGATION
- Buttons and basic actions for branching
- Branching view
MULTIMEDIA
- Encoding video
- Adding video
- Editing video
- Calibrating the microphone
- Recording audio
- Editing audio
- Importing audio
- Slide notes and the script
- Text to speech
RECORDING A DEMO OR SOFTWARE SIMULATION
- What gets recorded?
- Setting recording preferences
- Choosing a recording mode
- Setting up the computer before recording
- Starting a recording and setting recording options
- Recording a new project
- Recording using a template
- Post recording slide editing
- Working with the mouse path
- Recording a video demo
QUIZZES
- Adding Question Slides
- Types of Question slides
- Setting quiz preferences
THE CAPTIVATE PLAYER
- Customising the player skin
- Modifying the Table of Contents
PUBLISHING A PROJECT
- Publish settings
- Publishing to an LMS
- Publishing to HTML 5
- Other output options
To request further details of any of our courses, or to make a booking for Introductory Adobe Captivate training, please contact us by ringing 01747 820396 or 07477 578417 or by sending an email to info@archwayct.co.uk or filling in our contact form.